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Literary Genres

Autobiographies

An autobiography is a type of non-fiction in which a real person tells his or her life story. The authors writes about real places, times, and events. An autobiography includes all kinds of details, such as dates, names and events from the life of the author. The writer is the main character, and he or she writes in the first person, using the pronouns I and me. The story usually tells about theevents in chronological order, or the order that they happened.


Elements in Autobiographies
*NON-fiction, or true events
*uses first person point of view with pronouns I and me

*important times, and places in the life of the author

*important events in the life of the author


*important people in the life of the author




Who is the subject of the text of a autobiography?

What are the similarities among the factual details in an autobiography?